Introduction

A newly formed House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party met for the first time last Tuesday evening. Topics of discussion included China's military civil fusion, the Great Firewall, human rights abuses, surveillance, fentanyl trafficking, and Taiwan. The committee has already been criticized for continuing China bashing that is likely to harm Asian populations in the U.S. Despite the continuation of finger-pointing and saber-rattling from D.C., the hearing offered some indications that the United States will not completely break off from China.